On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:46:34 +0000 (UTC) in lucky.freebsd.questions, Daniel Bye wrote:
First of all thank you for your help, all what you said is correct. Next see below. > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:03:04PM +0300, Andrey Simonenko wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> How an arbitrary user (without root credentials) can install ports >> in own home dir? >> >> How I tried to do this: >> >> I created ~/local/ports, place Mk, Tools, Templates there. > > This step isn't necessary. Well, it might be, but only if you don't have > r-x access on /usr/ports and descendents. > I have to maintain own ports collection, because /usr/ports on target server is very outdated. >> But when I install any ports I'm asked to enter root password. >> This is from the bsd.port.mk: >> >> .if ${UID} != 0 && defined(_${target:U}_SUSEQ) >> [skip] >> @echo "===> Switching to root credentials for '${target}' target" >> @cd ${.CURDIR} && \ >> ${SU} root -c "${MAKE} ${__softMAKEFLAGS} ${_${target:U}_SUSEQ}" >> @echo "===> Returning to user credentials" >> >> If I give correct root's password, then a port is installed to ~/local >> and a package is registered in ~/local/var/db. > > Hmm, don't know what this means. With the correct set of variables defined, > I have not yet been asked to provide the root password... I think that something is broken in bsd.port.mk, because on another machine with old /usr/ports I _can_ install ports under in my home directory (using the method I described in my original message and additionally defining NO_MTREE=yes in environment). But with current ports collection that error about ``Switching to root...'' always appeared. On my system bsd.port.mk has 1.456 version. I suppose that this error was introduced in bsd.port.mk version 1.455. Which version of bsd.port.mk is installed on your system? _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"